The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-24

Mrs. Helen Il. Clarke has taken q
position on Good Cheer, where she
will find ample scope for her pen.
Miss Clara Foltz, the lady lawyer
Of the Pacific coast, is about TO take
up journalism. She will start her
own paper.
Miss Carrie |. Adsitt obtained the
prize OF the Cornell free scholarship
at the examination held there Satur-
day, June I'd.
The wife Of blacksmith at Beaver
Falls, Pa, works with him at the
forge, aud is considered rs good a
smith as her husband.
Two young gentlewomen are study
ing electrical engineering, which pro-
fession has not yet been overorowded.
Great fortunes have been made in Its
pursuit.
Miss Hannah Ellis Leavitt, Of
Skowhegan, won the honors in the
recent contest tor the best English
essay by the junior class OF Maine
State College, Orono, a GLASS consist.
ing OF twenty-three gentlemen and
one lady.
Yam Phou Lee, a Chinaman Just
graduated at Yale, has married a
New Haven girl, Miss Jerome. No
one has called attention to the fact
that should they have children the
law OF Connecticut makes Yam Phou
Lee their sole legal guardian. lie
may cramp their feet in Chinese fash
ion, or may send them to China to
be educated, and his wife can inter-
pose no legal obstacle.
OF the ffty.seven clerks in the
Quartermas,er Generals office, who
we're examined for promotion at
Washington, ID. g., june 10Th, thirty
were men and twenty. seven women.
Six men and two women failed TO at
tain the minimum Of 70 per cent.
Commissioner Oberly said the women
passed a much more satisfactory ex.
animation than the men, aud reached
higher averages.
Du. Maurier pictures Punch as
bowling obsequiously before a lady in
college gown and morter- board cap,
who is passing alone into the first
class" compartment Of n railway
train, duly marked For Ladies
0nly"-no male competitor having
been able to pass the examinations
in Greek aud Latin at Cambridge.
Honor to Agneta Frances Ram.
seyl" is underneath the picture.
One young lady in the West is fol-.
lowing the profession OF a civil en-.
gineer; a Cincinnati woman has been
licensed as stationary engineer
two women are steamboat captains
Mrs. Rand and Mrs. Colby manage a
real estate addition in Lincoln, Neb.;
and women school superintendent ts,
notary publics and deputy county
officers have ceased 10 be q novelty.
Anna Dickinson's famous epigram
was: The world belongs TO those
who take it'll Brooklyn Times.
DIR. II. Pereira Mendes, one OF the
best known Hebrew rabbis in thi,
country, says tersely and well: "Hu'
mainly il not religionlIed il womor
need escort Of IA night He might hav,
added that q city is not civilized 3,
long a. women without an escor
must 20 hungry in its streets oil I
night, AZ O women novelist, who's,
namo is known over this couutr,
aud Europe, has done in New YorI
within . fortnight, because no res
taurant, until she could provide her
self with a male acquaintance, wOulC
serve hera meal.-EliEa Putnam.
The vigorous boat crews at Welles
ley College illustrate the enthusiasm
which rowing inspires, and show Oh,
effective work that can be performed
by young women in earnest al tn
oar. The canoeing which is DOW Oh,
fashion induces instruction in th
art Of sculling, aud nothing is NOR,
graceful than 4 young girl sending
light canoe through the water will
quick, energetic strokes. In the frs
place, the young oarswOman wear
an appropriate costume OF ZOOS
blouse waist and flannel round skirt
she then secures a Eight boat, and /
careful TO obtain 10 the begiunin
the art Of the best position and move
ments. With short practice she !
able to achieve success in propellin
the boat rapidly through the water
and soon attaibs strength for a lon
pull and a strong one. -Grace Sopoi
in Boston Journal.
II Mrs. Chiara Cignarale shcul
be allowed 10 hang for the crime O
killing her worthless aud abusiy
husband, while 10 mortal fear lest h
should execute his brutal threat
against her, n good many women Il
New fork State will take pains b
acquaint Gov. Hill with their DIS
pleasure. Only few months sine
Mrs Druse was hung for
similar offence, committed undo
circumstances not widely different
while within year a number Of me
have missed hanging who Abun
dainty deserved IL. One Of these CIV
bis victims body up aud packed
into a trunk, throwing the head int
East river. Another was pslic
: officer, who killed his superio
because the latter was attempt
ing 10 enforce the rules Of the do
partment. Another was q iello'
who poured vitrol upon the fac
Of his landlady, who died 10 the mos
eIcruciating agony. All three o
these men escaped hanging; and III
women Of the State-even those VIII,
have no particular objection to mel
aud women iaring alike rs TO capita
punishment-are comparing thoi
cases with those OF Mrs. Dfuse an,
Mrs. Cignaralo. and the more the
compare the hotter their indignation
grows.
Hshtss Besdwsy.
From the San PrAnsisoo Chronicle. ]